From the website: “Life seems to be moving at an ever increasing pace, and your digital device might be in the driver’s seat. It’s often the first thing you check in the morning and the last thing before sleep. Your mind may crave mobile phone use, in the same way that it can crave cigarettes or food. The reward is a spritz of dopamine in your brain. We learn how to renegotiate your relationship with your smart phone.”

tricycle.org: The Division of Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School
Says Dr. Brewer: “The creation of a stand-alone Division of Mindfulness embedded within a Department of Medicine highlights how far the field has progressed and matured, and will create the infrastructure and support for researchers dedicated to furthering our neuroscientific knowledge of how the mind works, and for what medical conditions mindfulness is efficacious.”

“Our brains are not set up to think into the future very much,” said Judson Brewer, director of research at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. “So it’s really challenging until we really pay attention to the immediate behavior to be able to step out of it.”

“We are now understanding the seamless interconnectedness of brain, mind, body, experience, and well-being. This show of support for furthering the inquiry has the potential to inform the development of increasingly effective targeted clinical programs under the umbrella of a far more participatory model of medicine and health care.”

“Mindfulness goes to Parliament” Dr. Judson Brewer just returned from a trip to meet with the Speaker of the House of Commons (Honorable Geoff Regan, right) and other members of the Canadian Parliament (Honorable Scott Brison, President of the Treasury Board, left).